Chapter 54 The Old Monk Comes Away
Yang Yingqi scolded the businessmen and scholars who donated money to Huiguan to build a temple, and when he stopped, Huiguan smiled and said: "Helping the public to praise Buddhism is all about accumulating virtue and doing good." ”
Yang Yingqi sneered: "The money is in the hands of your old monk, you naturally say so." ”
Huiguan was not angry, and said: "The poor monk has been coming to Jinmen for two months, and he secretly watched the establishment of the Seven Generals, although the ancient Guan Zhong and Shang Ying could not ......"
Yang Yingqi didn't wait for him to finish speaking, then waved his hand and said, "Come less!" I don't dare to compare these two! ”
Huiguan smiled slightly and continued: "Today's speech, I see that the Seventh General is a reasonable and reasonable sage, but for some reason he has such a deep prejudice against my Buddhist family. ”
Yang Yingqi smiled: "Old monk, I don't think you are pedantic, since this is the case, I will open up to you." As long as the politicians are not too mediocre, they all love and hate Buddhism, do you know why? ”
Huiguan said: "My Buddhist family guides people to be good and persuades people to accumulate virtue, and the court naturally loves me." As for why he hated it, the poor monk was puzzled. ”
Yang Yingqi scolded: "The old monk sells melons and boasts by himself!" Okay, I'll tell you all about the hatred of the court over the years. The first thing is that there are too many people who want to be monks. Although being a monk cannot marry a wife and have children, drink wine and eat meat, it has all kinds of advantages: there is no need to pay taxes, there is no need to serve, and there are four benefactors to worship, which is the first leisure and chic destination in the world. Therefore, as soon as the trend of worshipping Buddha opens, people who shave their hair and lose their hair will be like bees flocking to honey! For the imperial court, there are more monks, and there are fewer people who farm and trade, pay grain and pay taxes! For the world, what if everyone goes to be a monk and passes on the lineage? So when it comes to the season when there are many monks, how can you make the court not hate you, and how can you make Confucian scholars like you? After a pause, he said: "In fact, there are too many people who shave, and it may not be a good thing for Buddhism itself!" There are so many monks, how many are sincerely committed to the Buddha? Aren't most of them wearing robes, thinking about wine and meat, and holding lewd sticks under their crotches? Could it be that with a lot of indiscriminate bald heads, the Buddha will be happy? I'm afraid not. This is the first drawback. ”
Hui nodded and said, "That's what the Seventh General said. ”
Yang Yingqi continued: "The second thing that the imperial court hates Buddhism is that the monks occupy too much secular property. The monk should have been empty of the four major ones, and he should have quit greed and ignorance. But monks are also human beings, and they also have to eat and dress, so when I am alive, I have to beg for food, otherwise how can I maintain this stinky skin? It's just that those false monks in your Buddhism often do mundane things of embezzling land and wealth! Amitabha Buddha in his mouth, rich in his pocket! There is a fixed number of goods in the world, and if there is more here, there will be less. And a rich monk must be good at collecting money, and a person who is good at collecting money must be stingy! When a miser gets money, he refuses to spit it out until he dies! The goods of the world are like the blood of a person's body, flowing to be healthy, and stagnation to death of illness. If the goods die in your monk's temple and refuse to flow out, then the people's livelihood will be sick because of it, and if you are greedy, the people's livelihood will be sick, and if you are greedy, the people's livelihood will be seriously ill, and if the people's livelihood is seriously ill, the world will be in danger and the society will be shaken. If this disadvantage and the first disadvantage occur together, the disaster will be even greater! As you just said, if the family and country are in danger, can Buddhism survive alone? Everyone is unlucky, you monks don't want to hide! At that time, as long as it is a wise emperor and prime minister, he will destroy the Buddha! The result is that the false monk has affected the real monk, and the bad monk has been the good monk! This is the second drawback. ”
Huiguan proclaimed the Buddha's horn and said: "A good fake monk has affected the real monk, and a bad monk has a good monk!" ”
Yang Yingqi said: "Third, let's talk about more specific things. You Buddhists like to build monasteries, that's all, and you like to make idols. Whether it is a golden Buddha statue or a bronze Buddha statue, this gold and bronze are all products that are quite lacking in the land of China, but they are also necessary for the country. The small Buddha is hundreds of kilograms, the big Buddha is 100,000 kilograms, and a large temple has ten Buddhas, which will cost 100,000 kilograms of copper. Old monk, do you know how much money can be made of 100,000 catties of copper? How much gold and copper can I have in Liaodong for you to squander? So as long as I'm in charge, I can't tolerate such things! In fact, when visiting the Buddha, it should be based on enlightenment, and when crossing the world, it should be to help the people as virtue, what is the role of cultivating so many big Buddha statues? If these Buddha statues not only mislead the people's livelihood and state affairs, but also harm the people, then the more Buddha statues are cultivated and bigger, the deeper and heavier the sins made by your monks! On that day, Emperor Wu of Liang had millions of monks and built more than 1,000 temples, but Bodhidharma said that he had not made any merits, which is the truth! This is the third drawback. In addition, there are many more, and I will not say more. But even if Buddhism only has these three drawbacks, I will never allow you to build a temple to preach the scriptures. ”
Huiguan heard the words and said: "The three evils of the seven generals are true monks and deep hates. But I don't know if the Seven Generals have a good law to heal? ”
Yang Yingqi said with a smile: "The method of eliminating cheats is actually simple. It's just that the false monks can't do it. ”
Hui Guan Wei also smiled: "What if it is really a monk? ”
Yang Yingqi said: "A true monk can do it naturally. ”
Huiguan said: "I want to hear it in detail." ”
Yang Yingqi said: "In addition to the first drawback, it is to choose the true and remove the false. However, if you have a shaved degree, you must not go down in private, you must imitate the imperial examination, check whether their conduct is correct, test whether they are familiar with Buddhist scriptures, and ask whether their Buddhist principles are clear. If all three are available, then it is a person who has a heart for the Buddha and is allowed to be a layman. The life of the line in the remote country, do good deeds and accumulate virtue, or three years, or five years, or ten years, the expiration of the re-examination, if in the middle, you can be a monk. In this way, the real monk can be kept and the fake monk can be removed. There are 10,000 true monks in the world, which is better than 10,000 bald heads who have no intention of turning to the Buddha. Old monk, do you say yes? ”
Huiguan smiled and said, "What the Seventh General said is very true. The Great Song Dynasty also has a method for assessing the Buddha, but it is not very strict. ”
Yang Yingqi said in his heart: "I scolded the bald man in person, but he was not angry at all, this wisdom is so self-contained." It seems that this can be done by him. Then he continued: "In addition to the second evil, the key point is to correct the attitude of the Buddhist disciples to use money!" ”
Huiguan asked, "How?" ”
Yang Yingqi said: "What is the use of the Buddhist family to raise money? One is self-support, and the other is to help the world. Self-support needs to set up a system, the abbot's monthly money geometry, the elder's monthly money geometry, the customer monthly money geometry, and the novice's monthly money geometry. If he takes more than he needs, then the monk is greedy! It's six endless! As for the money raised, if you have enough to support yourself, you should use it to do good deeds and help the world, not to satisfy the selfish desires of the monks. In my opinion, Buddhism takes the following five things as the first: one is the righteous burial, which usually reinforces the widows, widows, loneliness, old age, sickness, and incompetent self-burial, and the plague and famine collect the ownerless wild corpses, cremate them into the tower, and chant the scriptures to be reborn; The first is a volunteer doctor, recruiting famous doctors, or self-study medical skills and become medical monks, giving medicine to the poor; the third is free food, often opening porridge factories to treat the poor; The fourth is righteous learning, which collects three scriptures for the Han scholars to study, and sets up monks to teach children from poor families to read and write; Fifth, Yicang, when the harvest is ripe, rice and wheat are purchased to help farmers and the poor in disaster years. ”
Yang Yingqi said one of these five things, and the concept of wisdom is good. After saying the five things, Huiguan said: "It's just a small temple, and it may not be able to have so much money." ”
Yang Yingqi smiled: "These good deeds are actually for the help of the government. For example, Yicang is not to ask the Buddhist temple to solve the disaster independently, the government naturally has another warehouse to prepare for the famine, and the Buddhist Yicang is just a supplement. And if the disciples of Buddhism can do such good things in good conscience, when the monastery is exhausted, how can the public stand idly by? ”
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